Video-interview about climate science survey paper

Collin wrote a blogpost about it as well which is well worth a read, giving a bit of context from other opinion and literature surveys.

The interview starts off with the general findings regarding the level of consensus, then focusing on how this compares with previous studies, how the media coverage is slanted towards contrarian views, and he gives me a chance to talk about my favorite part, how aerosol cooling masks the greenhouse warming and how this makes the phrasing of the IPCC AR4 attribution statement, by focusing only on the greenhouse warming part, prone to being misinterpreted. These aspects were also discussed in my blogpost from last month.

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Depending in your perspective I guess you could, but I’d find it less logical because on the timescale of the next few centuries CO2 forcing is in all likelihood much stronger than the others. So in your sentence I would replace “masking” by “overpowering” or “dominating over” to clarify the relative magnitude of each.

Moreover, the aerosol forcing is temporary (due to their short residence time), whereas the CO2 forcing is much longer term (due to its long perturbation lifetime).

Hi from Singapore, Bart–on a business trip outside the Great Firewall of China. Hope all is well with you. I’m between flights and don’t have time to watch your video–just wanted to say hello and wish you well.

Hi again, Bart. Merry Xmas and all… I”m wondering if it would be possible to get the data from your survey, minus any identifying information. Are you handing it out like Christmas candy or do you have a procedure for disseminating it?

The full survey results are not publicly available, because the PBL intends to use the data for further analyses. The ‘straight counts’ for every question (i.e. the number of responses for each answer option) will be made publicly available in the near future (beginning of 2015).